Connecticut western news., 1887-09-07
WEST CORNWALL.

dranu oXCurSlOn to SeaSlue pafk, Bridgeport, Saturday, Sept. 10. Tickets to be had of Agent Oldfeld, at Ssl, ,00 for the round trip. Miss Sadie Ross is with friends at Long Hill for a weeks visit . Miss Gertie Harrison returned to her school in Windham, Ohio, last week. Fred H. Wood, of the New York Chemical Bank, is spend ing his vacation at home. .. Miss Eliza Baldwin. of Bridgeport, is at her brothers for couple of weeks. -. Fred Scoville returns this week to Bridge port high school for the fall and winter terms. S. l.. Ferris is visiting friends in New Haven and Bridgeport the pres ent week Miss Hattie Stone and grandfather returned from their visit to Albany last week .. |. :. Master Ransom Smith has been suffering the past few days with severe attack of bronchitis. -. Mrs A. D. Warner, of Woodbury, is slowly recovering from course of typhoid fever. =. Quite delegation of young people attended the dime soci able at T. s. Colds Monday evening IA large party of young people from the Hill attended the grange pie nic at Torrington last Friday A. N. Dibble's barn with about 5 tons of hay and straw, three wagons and many farming utensils, were burned on Satur- day evening about midnight. It is SUD- posed to be the work of an incendiary. ... Edward Kaler, of Bridgeport, has a nine pound shear maker on his hands to provide for, which arrived one day last week. Uncle Hen smiles out of both corners of his mouth now -. Frank Weldon, who lies at s. J. Kicker sons, is very sick with typhoid fever
 .. Mir and Mrs M. $. Nickerson, who have been in Meriden through the sum- mer, are at their old home for the pres ent. .. Miss Ida B. Smith, of Great Burlington, former teacher here, is engaged to teach our village school, commencing on Monday next, the 18th inst Miss Bessie Derrickson, of War ren, spent Sunday with friends in North Cornwall Miss Ada c. Sterling, of Bridgeport, is g. guest at Mrs R. l. Sco- wills, Cream Hill. =. On Monday, John l.. Washing, our enterprising young pioneer of the "gray iron" fraternity, thinking it not wise or ccriptural for 4o olo in style with his affianced, Miss Jennie Handlin, to Amenia, where the Gordian knot was so gracefully and securely tied by a York State divine, that to even look back on a state of "single blessed ness" seemed untold folly. The happy couple left by Harlem railroad for New York and vicinity, followed by the best wishes of the community for as happy and prosperous a voyage across the matrimonial sea" of life as their wedd- ing day proved bright and cloudless. :. MT Ichabod s. Everette passed away very suddenly last Tuesday morning at the residence of his daughter, Mrs David l.. Smith, with whom he had made his home the past four years. MT Everette had reached the advanced age of nearly four score years, the greater part of which had been passed in his pleasant and much cherished home in Ellsworth, and where he had visited only few days before his death. He was kind friend and neighbor and a highly esteemed citizen, having held many offices of public trust in his native town with the utmost satisfaction. His funeral was very largely attended on Thursday afternoon, the Rev P. H. Mason officiating, and his remains fol
 lowed to their last resting place in Ellsworth by large number of rela
 tives and friends,